"Monster Crowd Too Much For Mickey DISNEY GATES CLOSED" Traffic-choking crowds jam Walt Disney World to capacity on this day after Thanksgiving. Shortly before noon it is announced that the Florida park must close its gates to outside visitors! (Among those in the Magic Kingdom

on this day ... the webmaster of This Day in Disney History.)

2010:

As many as as 130 Disney stores across the nation open at midnight on "Magical

Friday" – Disney's answer to Black Friday.

The first Candlelight Processional of the season takes place at Epcot. Disney World's

long-running telling of the Christmas story features a live orchestra and a massive choir performing traditional

Disney's feature The Haunted Mansion opens in theaters. The movie stars Eddie Murphy as real estate agent Jim Evers who drags his family to see the creepy Gracey mansion when he learns it is being put up for sale!

When the Evers family gets there, however, they are stranded by a torrential thunderstorm and quickly find that they are not alone—not when 999 grim, grinning ghosts come out to socialize. Directed by Rob Minkoff, the cast includes Terence Stamp, Nathaniel Parker, Marsha Thomason, and Jennifer Tilly.

2004:

The popular Disney World holiday event the Candlelight Processional is performed

at Epcot for the first time this season as Holidays Around the World begins.

The Disney/Pixar animated feature The Incredibles is released in the United Kingdom

and the Republic of Ireland.

2006:

The Wonders of Life pavilion including the attractions Body Wars, Cranium

Command, and The Making of Me reopen in Epcot. Closed since January 2005, the pavilion

TV series like "Disneyland" and "Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color" for a periodic programming block on

the channel under the banner of "Treasures From the Disney Vault." The block will be offered by TCM

approximately four to five times a year starting with a broadcast on December 21.

1955:

Donald Paul Hahn, a film producer who is credited with producing some of the most successful animated films in recent history, including The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast (the first animated film to be nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture), is born in

Chicago, Illinois. Starting his career in animation working for Disney Legend Wolfgang Reitherman as an assistant director on The Fox and the Hound, he later worked closely with director Don Bluth on the production of Pete's Dragon.

He then became production manager of The Black Cauldron and The Great Mouse Detective before moving on as an associate producer of Disney/Amblin's Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The 2009 Waking Sleeping Beauty is Hahn's feature directorial debut. Hahn also serves as executive producer of numerous Disneynature documentaries.

1965:

Comedian, actor, and writer Scott Adsit is born in Northbrook, Illinois. He is the voice of the robot Baymax in the Disney animated film Big Hero 6 and the television series Big Hero 6: The Series.